The first national sperm bank is to be opened in England this October after receiving a £77,000 grant from the Department of Health...
A leading Japanese scientist who was embroiled in the STAP cell controversy has been found dead in an apparent suicide....
Expectant mothers should be offered earlier screening for rare chromosomal conditions, the UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) recommends...
A fertility clinic in Manchester has launched a new scheme that will give a refund to patients who fail to have a baby after undertaking IVF treatment...
NHS bosses in York have been accused of backtracking on a promise to restart funding for IVF treatment, disappointing an estimated 110 couples requiring treatment in the area...
A new study suggests that mutations in a gene called PALB2 are just behind BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations as a leading genetic risk factor for breast cancer...
Nicholas Agar has endeared himself to the enhancement debate by being a little bit afraid of 'post humans' — the real life supermen who could very well use their powers for evil and enslave the rest of humanity. It may come as no surprise then that Agar's latest venture into the debate continues in much the same vein....
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Surrogacy, motherhood and Baby Gammy
by Sascha Callaghan and 1 others
The story of the baby with Down's syndrome 'abandoned' in Thailand, which has dominated the news, illustrates how the international surrogacy industry has been booming...